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No, okay, good, that was 0:00:44.800 --> 0:00:47.080 a great set of Chuck. Let's talk about a competitive 0:00:47.080 --> 0:00:50.160 eating go. Wow, you had something better than that plan out, didn't, 0:00:50.159 --> 0:00:53.239 you know? Not really? Okay against talking about like, oh 0:00:53.320 --> 0:00:56.800 I'm awful. I remember in high school, back when I 0:00:56.880 --> 0:00:59.560 was a younger man. Uh, there was this place. Do 0:00:59.600 --> 0:01:01.880 you remember Buffalo is the chain? I don't think it's 0:01:01.880 --> 0:01:06.399 around anymore. I think I think the Wings Cafe or whatever. Yeah. Um, 0:01:06.440 --> 0:01:10.200 they used to have like a like an ongoing um 0:01:10.360 --> 0:01:13.320 hall of Fame or whatever wall of fame. It was 0:01:13.360 --> 0:01:15.440 a plaque with people's names on it. They would like, 0:01:15.760 --> 0:01:19.280 eat an X number of wings. And I had a 0:01:19.319 --> 0:01:21.400 couple of friends on there at the one by Sprayberry 0:01:21.480 --> 0:01:24.920 High School, Mary Georgia. I don't think fifty or more 0:01:25.000 --> 0:01:27.600 gute on there. Did you got Sprayberry? Yeah? I went Sprayberry. 0:01:27.800 --> 0:01:29.960 Did not know that? Did you know anybody who went 0:01:30.000 --> 0:01:33.120 to Sprayberry besides Travis Tritt and some guy who was 0:01:33.160 --> 0:01:35.880 on some reality show? No, no, I did not realize 0:01:35.880 --> 0:01:38.839 that they went there. Yeah, I've got let me see. 0:01:39.160 --> 0:01:41.720 I think you had a cup. Chris Kardaki went to 0:01:41.720 --> 0:01:45.880 my school. He was an NFL punter, and um, where'd 0:01:45.880 --> 0:01:48.520 you go? I went to read Ann oh Over in 0:01:49.120 --> 0:01:51.640 the cab. Yeah. Yeah. Is it possible that I'm the 0:01:51.680 --> 0:01:54.080 most famous person that went to my high school? Holy cow? 0:01:54.160 --> 0:01:57.280 How cool would that be? Chuck, Well, Chuck, what's the 0:01:57.320 --> 0:02:00.360 most you've ever eaten? I have no idea. It had 0:02:00.400 --> 0:02:03.360 to be some like Chinese food buffet or something. I'll 0:02:03.360 --> 0:02:06.040 just say, yeah, yeah, those things will kill you, especially 0:02:06.040 --> 0:02:09.880 the big ones. I have like seven buffets in one restaurant. 0:02:10.560 --> 0:02:12.640 One of my friends had to be helped out. I 0:02:12.680 --> 0:02:16.320 had to help him out with hi hippie justin Okay, 0:02:16.480 --> 0:02:20.120 yeah close? Really wow, yeah that was close. Yeah. I 0:02:20.400 --> 0:02:23.040 I don't do the buffet thing anymore. That's I learned 0:02:23.120 --> 0:02:25.120 that from my dad, you know, how to master the 0:02:25.160 --> 0:02:27.440 buffet when I was very young. But I get your 0:02:27.440 --> 0:02:29.480 money's worth. Yeah, yeah, and I have since learned. You know, 0:02:29.520 --> 0:02:32.280 my dad was busy gorging himself. My mom was stuffing 0:02:32.440 --> 0:02:36.240 things in her purse. This is like how things were 0:02:36.280 --> 0:02:38.240 in the seventies when he went to a buffet. Yeah. Well, 0:02:38.280 --> 0:02:41.320 buffets have come a long way since then. And why 0:02:41.360 --> 0:02:45.800 does anyone go to any cafeteria style restaurant, especially there's 0:02:46.000 --> 0:02:48.520 usually a buffet across the street. It's like all you 0:02:48.560 --> 0:02:51.640 can eat or very tiny portions for the same exact price. 0:02:51.760 --> 0:02:53.720 I'll tell you where I'm going, buddy. I'm going to 0:02:53.800 --> 0:02:57.680 the place where people with oxygen tanks and rascals who 0:02:57.720 --> 0:03:00.120 are sweating grease are coming out of the doors. That's 0:03:00.120 --> 0:03:01.720 where I'm going, because that's where you're going to get 0:03:01.760 --> 0:03:05.680 your money for agreed, So buffet's. We've both eaten too 0:03:05.760 --> 0:03:08.200 much at buffet's. That's our setup. Really Yeah, but no 0:03:08.320 --> 0:03:11.000 more let's let's talk about competitive eating. There's nothing competitive 0:03:11.040 --> 0:03:15.000 about a buffet except vying for the white meat. That's 0:03:15.000 --> 0:03:18.839 the only competitive that's your thing. Yeah. Yeah, So there 0:03:18.840 --> 0:03:21.520 are people out there, as as you may have guessed 0:03:21.520 --> 0:03:25.000 by now, um, that eat competitively. A lot of people. 0:03:25.240 --> 0:03:30.960 You've got rugby, you have highly poker, dolphin glass owing, 0:03:31.880 --> 0:03:35.360 and competitive eating. Yeah, those are pretty much the top 0:03:35.400 --> 0:03:37.240 four or five sports. I don't remember how many I 0:03:37.320 --> 0:03:40.200 just said. Okay, yeah, yeah, I would agree. I can't 0:03:40.200 --> 0:03:42.720 think of any other sport that would that would top those. No, 0:03:43.520 --> 0:03:45.720 I would put highlight in the first position, though, would 0:03:45.760 --> 0:03:49.200 you really? So you should? I guess we should just 0:03:49.240 --> 0:03:52.080 go ahead and say that there is an actual federation 0:03:52.240 --> 0:03:56.520 called the International Federation of Competitive Eating. It's since been 0:03:56.560 --> 0:04:00.400 retitled Major League Eating. Did you know that there? We'reization 0:04:00.480 --> 0:04:03.000 really I think they still go by uh the I 0:04:03.320 --> 0:04:07.360 f O c E, but they also go by competitive 0:04:07.600 --> 0:04:10.600 Major League Eating. Yeah, this sounds more official the other way. 0:04:10.760 --> 0:04:12.400 I like. I like the first one more two. Just 0:04:12.400 --> 0:04:13.720 gonna go ahead and say it. Did you know it 0:04:13.760 --> 0:04:17.000 was founded by Nathan's Hot Dogs publicity wing. It does 0:04:17.040 --> 0:04:19.320 not surprise me. I didn't know that though the rumor 0:04:19.360 --> 0:04:22.560 has it that the Nathan's, the famous Nathan's hot dog 0:04:22.720 --> 0:04:26.679 stand in Coney Island, started uh competitive eating in nineteen 0:04:26.800 --> 0:04:30.880 sixteen with four friends who sat down together and challenge 0:04:30.960 --> 0:04:35.520 each other too too out eat hot dogs two and 0:04:35.560 --> 0:04:39.000 whoever ate the most was the better patriot. So if 0:04:39.040 --> 0:04:42.240 you can eat more hot dogs, you are better patriot. Yeah. 0:04:42.279 --> 0:04:44.320 It was I think Fourth of July right that they 0:04:44.320 --> 0:04:46.240 did it. I think so. And then they I think 0:04:46.240 --> 0:04:48.360 one of like thirteen hot dogs and he was the 0:04:48.400 --> 0:04:51.520 better patriot. And since then it's been a thing, which 0:04:51.560 --> 0:04:53.960 is it's peanuts, it's measily. Can I stop doing an 0:04:54.000 --> 0:04:56.400 accent now? No, I'd like you to continue for the 0:04:56.400 --> 0:04:59.279 rest of the podcast. How wouldn't that be great? Yeah? 0:04:59.320 --> 0:05:02.320 Are you going to? No? It sounds very Coney Island show, 0:05:03.080 --> 0:05:06.720 very Coney Island nineteen sixteen. I mean you nailed it. Um. So, 0:05:06.880 --> 0:05:10.880 I think Nathan's continued this for all Fourth of July's 0:05:10.920 --> 0:05:14.120 after that, or probably the vast majority. Probably not during 0:05:14.160 --> 0:05:16.640 World War two. Nobody did anything during World War Two. 0:05:17.160 --> 0:05:19.520 The thing is is people were still just kind of 0:05:19.720 --> 0:05:25.560 um eating twelve thirteen, sixteen hot dogs, right, which is 0:05:25.600 --> 0:05:27.600 nothing compared to what they do now, right, And there 0:05:27.600 --> 0:05:30.159 were there were other eating competitions. There was this one 0:05:30.240 --> 0:05:34.839 between a guy who played outfield I think for the Yankees, 0:05:34.960 --> 0:05:39.359 Ping Body, that was an Italian American and Uh in 0:05:39.480 --> 0:05:43.800 nineteen nineteen, he engaged in a spaghetti eating contest with 0:05:43.920 --> 0:05:48.200 an Ostrich. I challenge you Ostrich, yep, the but I 0:05:48.240 --> 0:05:51.240 think that's exactly how it went down too, and the 0:05:51.240 --> 0:05:55.080 Ostrich just is like, what's spaghetti? The Ostrich just ate 0:05:55.120 --> 0:05:59.520 whatever was based in front of it, eleven bowls. Apparently, Uh, 0:05:59.720 --> 0:06:02.799 Ping Body was declared the winner because apparently the Ostrich 0:06:02.880 --> 0:06:06.200 either fainted or died on its eleven pole, depending on 0:06:06.279 --> 0:06:09.600 who you ask, the proud tradition of the Yankees exactly 0:06:09.600 --> 0:06:14.160 the dark and Ping just probably ate the the unconscious 0:06:14.160 --> 0:06:17.440 Ostrich and then smoked five cigars right afterwards, exactly. And 0:06:17.480 --> 0:06:20.120 then did you gotten a drinking contest with Babe Ruth? 0:06:20.600 --> 0:06:23.600 That's probably how that went down. Yeah. So uh, there's 0:06:23.640 --> 0:06:27.760 also painting contests, a staple of country fairs. Yeah, back 0:06:27.800 --> 0:06:29.880 in the day. I think they in the article at 0:06:29.960 --> 0:06:32.839 Leasta said that that was more along the lines of, hey, 0:06:32.920 --> 0:06:35.560 let's like tie your hands behind your back, not necessarily 0:06:35.600 --> 0:06:37.160 see how many pies you can eat. It was a 0:06:37.200 --> 0:06:40.480 little more I wouldn't say challenging, but I think the 0:06:40.480 --> 0:06:45.719 fund yeah more gross chuck. We have been organically and 0:06:46.040 --> 0:06:50.000 um irresistibly led right back to standby man, you're going 0:06:50.040 --> 0:06:52.640 to say that, how could I not the great great 0:06:52.680 --> 0:06:55.599 story that young Will Wheaton says about the that he 0:06:55.720 --> 0:06:59.400 makes up as the young writer the painting contest, large 0:07:00.240 --> 0:07:04.640 wide load, fantastic scene. Um. But yes, so that was 0:07:04.680 --> 0:07:07.640 a county fair pie eating contest. It's just kind of 0:07:07.640 --> 0:07:10.280 goes willy nilly all over the place. Anybody who wanted 0:07:10.320 --> 0:07:14.600 to get fifty people or so to their um store 0:07:14.720 --> 0:07:17.600 will the eating contest. Well. In the nineties, as we 0:07:17.600 --> 0:07:22.680 were saying, I think, um, George and Richard Shay, who 0:07:22.760 --> 0:07:26.120 I think may still run publicity for Nathan's Famous Hotdogs, 0:07:26.320 --> 0:07:29.000 took this old concept and really drummed it up. They 0:07:29.000 --> 0:07:31.080 took it to the next level and then some and 0:07:31.600 --> 0:07:36.720 they were answered by some people who have dedicated their 0:07:36.720 --> 0:07:40.679 free time at least to competitive eating. Like I don't 0:07:40.680 --> 0:07:44.760 know exactly how this symbiotic relationship came about, but these 0:07:44.800 --> 0:07:48.880 guys put the call out there and some people answered it. 0:07:49.120 --> 0:07:54.720 What are they called chuck gurgitators, gurgetators. That's right, it is. 0:07:54.880 --> 0:07:57.120 It is gross because you slap ran there and you're 0:07:57.160 --> 0:07:59.800 talking about someone who pukes, and we'll we'll get into 0:07:59.840 --> 0:08:01.760 the thing, and I know I can't wait, just to 0:08:01.840 --> 0:08:05.960 warn people it is coming. Yeah. Um, so since the 0:08:06.240 --> 0:08:10.360 since the late nineties, actually since the century, because I 0:08:10.360 --> 0:08:12.000 think for a few years it took a few years 0:08:12.000 --> 0:08:15.040 to catch on and people were still just really phoning 0:08:15.080 --> 0:08:19.400 it in eating thirteen fifteen eighteen hot dogs, and then, 0:08:19.480 --> 0:08:23.080 like I think, starting in about two thousand two, a 0:08:23.120 --> 0:08:25.960 little fella, I think a hundred and sixty pounds out 0:08:25.960 --> 0:08:30.240 of Japan named Takaro Kobayashi, which is why you said, 0:08:30.280 --> 0:08:34.120 called me Kobayashi. Not to be confused, um with the 0:08:34.160 --> 0:08:39.000 attorney in um the usual suspects it Okay, die hard, 0:08:39.040 --> 0:08:43.120 I'm an idiot, die Hard Kobayashi, the usual sub suspects. Yeah, 0:08:43.120 --> 0:08:45.760 that's not to me. Yeah, not tell me, tower's what 0:08:45.800 --> 0:08:47.880 I was thinking. Yeah, no, I'm talking Kobayashi and the 0:08:48.200 --> 0:08:50.560 usual suspect. I feel like a heel now. It's because 0:08:50.600 --> 0:08:52.000 I'm a movie guy. Do you want us to edit 0:08:52.000 --> 0:08:55.080 this part out? Okay, thanks for leaving it in chuck, 0:08:55.160 --> 0:08:58.520 I'll be wrong. Um. So, Takiro Kobayashi hits the scene 0:08:58.640 --> 0:09:03.520 hundred sixty pounds sucking red hair. Uh can eat fifty 0:09:03.679 --> 0:09:07.079 sixty hot dogs in like eight minutes, ten minutes. So 0:09:07.120 --> 0:09:09.280 all of a sudden, all these guys who were you know, 0:09:09.440 --> 0:09:11.960 just like, oh, check me out a eighteen hot dogs 0:09:11.960 --> 0:09:14.800 in ten minutes. These they're they're weeping at home and 0:09:14.840 --> 0:09:18.440 their garages. That's it. They're done, they're over, their careers 0:09:18.440 --> 0:09:22.800 are done. Kobayashi rocks the competitive eating world, and he 0:09:22.880 --> 0:09:25.600 attracts more and more people big time. He owned it 0:09:25.640 --> 0:09:29.280 for many years, he did and actually lost only because 0:09:29.320 --> 0:09:32.720 of a jaw injury. Really yeah, we'll get to that 0:09:32.760 --> 0:09:35.480 in a few okay, um but so yeah, he's he's 0:09:35.520 --> 0:09:37.880 at the Nathan's hot Dog Fourth of July hot Dog 0:09:37.920 --> 0:09:40.040 eating contest, and that's the biggest one. There's all kinds 0:09:40.040 --> 0:09:42.440 of eating contests, which we'll get into that too. We 0:09:42.520 --> 0:09:45.319 keep teasing, we're not going to get around to any 0:09:45.320 --> 0:09:48.520 of this, but the Nathan's hot Dog Contest is is 0:09:48.559 --> 0:09:51.960 easily the most famous, and I mean it's the world 0:09:52.040 --> 0:09:54.680 series of the Super Bowl of Yeah, it's broadcast on ESPN. 0:09:55.240 --> 0:09:58.640 Have you actually actually watched it in full? I wish 0:09:58.679 --> 0:10:00.920 you wouldn't ask me that, because as I did a 0:10:00.960 --> 0:10:03.200 few years ago. I don't remember why I was in 0:10:03.240 --> 0:10:05.680 front of my television at the time, but I did, 0:10:06.360 --> 0:10:10.320 and uh, it was disgusting. It was really really gross 0:10:10.320 --> 0:10:12.800 and hard to watch. You know. I've I've read um 0:10:12.840 --> 0:10:16.280 and actually I've got to source this openly and honestly, 0:10:16.280 --> 0:10:19.360 I've read this on cracked dot com. But there's this 0:10:19.400 --> 0:10:22.000 stuff called side food and the stuff that comes out 0:10:22.000 --> 0:10:24.120 the sides of the mouth that's kind of half chewed, 0:10:24.160 --> 0:10:27.720 and man, I guess just through physics, you know, yea 0:10:28.040 --> 0:10:30.800 to two objects can't occupy the same space at the 0:10:30.840 --> 0:10:34.480 same time, so I think the rest of that law 0:10:34.640 --> 0:10:36.600 ends with so some of that stuff comes out of 0:10:36.600 --> 0:10:39.280 your mouth kind of chewed up the sides of your mouth, 0:10:39.320 --> 0:10:43.520 I guess. Um. So yeah, I understand it is very gross. Yeah, 0:10:43.640 --> 0:10:46.000 I had a hard time watching it. Yeah, you didn't 0:10:46.000 --> 0:10:47.760 make it through the whole thing. No. I watched it 0:10:47.760 --> 0:10:49.680 because I wanted to see if it was the big 0:10:49.720 --> 0:10:54.199 matchup between Kobayashi and Joey Chestnut. Okay, so we've arrived 0:10:54.200 --> 0:10:57.400 at Joey Chestnuts that that must have been two thousand seven, Buddy, 0:10:57.800 --> 0:11:00.600 I think it was the first year he won, which 0:11:00.600 --> 0:11:04.319 was two thousand seven. That was the year that kobey 0:11:04.320 --> 0:11:08.120 Ashi had a jaw injury that supposedly field um And 0:11:08.160 --> 0:11:12.880 apparently during the competition, Chestnut beat Kobayashi sixty six to 0:11:12.960 --> 0:11:15.320 sixty three, and kobey Ashi says, no, no, I had 0:11:15.360 --> 0:11:18.439 a jaw injury, and Chestnut says, eat it, buddy, I 0:11:18.600 --> 0:11:21.600 beat you and I'm now the champion in Kobe. She said, 0:11:21.720 --> 0:11:24.280 don't get in some water and I will eat it. Yeah, 0:11:24.360 --> 0:11:27.600 because that is a technique that many competitive eaters used. 0:11:27.679 --> 0:11:31.120 It is and um actually almost all of them. Ed Grabanowski, 0:11:31.280 --> 0:11:33.959 the grabster who wrote this article and actually for this 0:11:34.160 --> 0:11:39.240 article went to uh An eating constant in Buffalo. Yeah, 0:11:39.320 --> 0:11:42.040 he describes it clearly. He didn't read the last two pages, 0:11:42.240 --> 0:11:45.439 didn't um. He describes this visit to it, and you 0:11:45.520 --> 0:11:48.560 know several people are there. Sonya Thomas, the black widow, 0:11:49.160 --> 0:11:54.080 hundred pounds dude, hundred pounds of Korean ancestry ancestry fury. 0:11:54.320 --> 0:11:55.599 Can we just go ahead and mention a couple of 0:11:55.679 --> 0:11:59.040 records she holds because she is littered over the I 0:11:59.440 --> 0:12:02.800 fo c E Record Book. Sonya Thomas has eaten thirty 0:12:02.840 --> 0:12:07.120 five brought worse in ten minutes. She's eating a hundred 0:12:07.200 --> 0:12:11.960 and sixty seven chicken wings in thirty two minutes. She's 0:12:12.000 --> 0:12:16.000 eating four pounds of fruit cake in ten minutes. Can 0:12:16.040 --> 0:12:19.000 I say my favorite? Yeah, She's eaten eight point three 0:12:19.080 --> 0:12:23.320 one pounds of armored Vienna sausage in ten minutes. Wow, 0:12:23.400 --> 0:12:25.040 all right, and I'm gonna go with this final one 0:12:25.360 --> 0:12:29.080 unless you have one. She ate forty four forty four 0:12:29.480 --> 0:12:33.319 main lobsters, dude in twelve minutes. And that's the meat 0:12:33.360 --> 0:12:36.160 obviously only, which is that was eleven pounds of meat. 0:12:36.880 --> 0:12:39.719 She also you left out probably your most famous one, 0:12:39.880 --> 0:12:42.480 which is that? So have you seen cool hand Luke Well, yeah, 0:12:42.880 --> 0:12:45.160 you know the hard boiled egg eating cont so cool 0:12:45.200 --> 0:12:50.640 hand Luke Tift. She ate sixty five hard boiled eggs 0:12:50.720 --> 0:12:54.840 in six minutes for seconds. Hundred pounds of woman. Yeah, 0:12:55.080 --> 0:12:57.199 stuff in this food down to throat. Yeah. She eats 0:12:57.320 --> 0:12:59.920 um once a day, one large meal a day, usually 0:13:00.000 --> 0:13:03.360 from a buffet. In the article, she's shown helping herself 0:13:03.400 --> 0:13:07.480 to some sushi um and uh, yeah, she's a hundred pounds. 0:13:07.520 --> 0:13:11.360 She's she lives in Alexandria, Virginia, and she dominates right 0:13:11.400 --> 0:13:14.320 now as of what's the date today, Chuck, the thirty 0:13:14.360 --> 0:13:17.400 one of July. She is number six in the i 0:13:17.640 --> 0:13:19.960 fo c E rankings. I bet she's the top female 0:13:20.000 --> 0:13:24.600 in g Yes. I imagine she destroys the female competition. Yeah, 0:13:25.320 --> 0:13:27.920 it's good for her, right and again, like you said, 0:13:27.960 --> 0:13:29.959 she's a hundred pounds, she's it's awesome and she goes 0:13:30.000 --> 0:13:31.720 by the black Widow. So it doesn't get cooler than 0:13:31.760 --> 0:13:35.160 that right now, not any core. Um. We talked about 0:13:35.200 --> 0:13:38.040 Kobe Ashi, who for I think from like two thousand 0:13:38.080 --> 0:13:41.600 to two thousand and seven held all the major records. Uh, 0:13:41.720 --> 0:13:45.400 he just could not be stopped and so competitive eating. 0:13:45.559 --> 0:13:50.199 He's from Japan. The Japanese just dominated competitive eating until 0:13:50.240 --> 0:13:54.800 two thousand seven Joey Chestnut shows up. Joey, this guy 0:13:55.280 --> 0:13:59.760 has put the smack down on absolutely everybody everyone. He 0:14:00.040 --> 0:14:03.920 hold some crazy, crazy records. Uh. He ate a hundred 0:14:03.960 --> 0:14:06.839 and three Crystal Burghers, which, for our friends in the 0:14:06.920 --> 0:14:10.240 Northeast are the same thing as White Castle pretty much sliders, 0:14:10.760 --> 0:14:12.320 uh and I don't know what they would be out west, 0:14:12.400 --> 0:14:15.080 any clue? Are Jack in the Box small and square. 0:14:16.040 --> 0:14:20.240 Uh no, okay, I don't remember. I don't actually remember 0:14:20.280 --> 0:14:22.120 ever seeing any little sliders out there. I'm sure they 0:14:22.160 --> 0:14:25.240 have them though. Uh. If you go onto the I 0:14:25.480 --> 0:14:28.760 f o C website, click on Joey Chestnut if you 0:14:28.880 --> 0:14:32.000 dare everything that comes up. He's just got this laundry 0:14:32.080 --> 0:14:35.280 list records that he holds. Right, he's a champion eater 0:14:35.440 --> 0:14:39.040 for sure, and he has Kobe Ashi's but uh in 0:14:39.200 --> 0:14:41.480 oh seven oh eight and then just a month or 0:14:41.560 --> 0:14:43.320 like not even a month ago and O nine Yeah, 0:14:43.520 --> 0:14:46.600 instead of new world record, right that jaw injury. Um 0:14:47.240 --> 0:14:51.000 excuse only goes so far. Sixty eight hot dogs is 0:14:51.040 --> 0:14:53.640 what Joey Chestnut eight this year and that's including buns. 0:14:53.680 --> 0:14:56.040 And let's talk about some of these people do this. Um, 0:14:56.120 --> 0:15:00.720 you talked about dunking and water. Almost everybody uses mostly water, 0:15:00.880 --> 0:15:04.280 but you're allowed to with any dip your food in 0:15:04.520 --> 0:15:11.040 a drinks. It makes it you would get so full everywhere. Um, 0:15:11.240 --> 0:15:13.280 have a Roman incident? Is that what you mean? That's 0:15:13.320 --> 0:15:15.400 what the FOC calls it. That's right, Yeah, they call 0:15:15.400 --> 0:15:17.520 it a Roman incident. If you vomit, and I believe 0:15:17.520 --> 0:15:20.400 if you vomit on the table or on the food, 0:15:20.760 --> 0:15:25.520 then you're disqualified. But um, apparently, from what I understand, 0:15:25.560 --> 0:15:28.080 if you puke uh and it doesn't touch the table 0:15:28.160 --> 0:15:32.160 or whatever, um, you can proceed, I guess. But at 0:15:32.200 --> 0:15:34.960 the same time, like they probably count that as eaten. 0:15:35.560 --> 0:15:39.520 I think in two thousand two, Kobayashi um had a 0:15:39.560 --> 0:15:43.080 little controversy where he vomited some up and it was 0:15:43.160 --> 0:15:46.040 counted as eating. He held most of it back though, right, Yeah, 0:15:46.120 --> 0:15:48.040 he put his hand and see that's what's so gross, man. 0:15:48.080 --> 0:15:51.080 And these guys and ladies are eating the stuff and 0:15:51.160 --> 0:15:52.760 they're just stuffing in in their mouths and you can 0:15:52.840 --> 0:15:55.680 see this like look on their face like they're gonna die. 0:15:56.080 --> 0:15:57.360 And all of a sudden you see one of them 0:15:57.480 --> 0:16:00.640 like yeah, and they put their hands over their mouth, 0:16:01.160 --> 0:16:03.440 and you know what's happening. Kind of tell you a 0:16:03.480 --> 0:16:07.000 little story, yeah, God, a little little story from my path. 0:16:07.120 --> 0:16:12.560 Let so imagine Josh Clark age one on July. Okay, 0:16:12.760 --> 0:16:15.000 sleep in a in a field behind a home depot. 0:16:15.160 --> 0:16:21.520 That would have been U. I'm in Athens, Georgia, go dogs, right, uh, 0:16:21.640 --> 0:16:23.840 And I'm at what was the I guess the Half 0:16:23.920 --> 0:16:26.760 Moon Pub. Yeah, it was downstairs. Yeah, I had friends 0:16:26.800 --> 0:16:29.360 at work there downstairs from the Athens Coffee House, I 0:16:29.480 --> 0:16:32.200 think so it was. Um, So, I'm down at half 0:16:32.240 --> 0:16:34.360 Moon hanging out with some friends and I see a 0:16:34.440 --> 0:16:38.240 guy who i'm I have I'm mutual friends with or 0:16:38.320 --> 0:16:40.520 we have mutual friends. I'm sorry, but he and I 0:16:40.600 --> 0:16:44.520 don't really like each other. He comes over and he goes, hey, here, 0:16:44.560 --> 0:16:47.520 it's your birthday. Let me buy you a shot. I'm like, sure, 0:16:47.640 --> 0:16:50.520 no problem. So he buys me a shot of two 0:16:50.640 --> 0:16:55.320 fifty two. What is that? Baccardi? Are you ready? It's 0:16:55.440 --> 0:16:59.600 a shot of bacartie and wild turkey one oh one. 0:17:00.720 --> 0:17:02.800 There is no reason for the shot to exist in 0:17:02.840 --> 0:17:05.600 the universe, right, So the guy buys me the shot. 0:17:06.240 --> 0:17:08.640 I take it, you know, not wanting to to look 0:17:08.680 --> 0:17:11.080 like a coward and already kind of ripped. Um. I 0:17:11.200 --> 0:17:14.159 take the shot and I feel it immediately start to 0:17:14.200 --> 0:17:17.200 come back up, and not just that, everything everything start 0:17:17.240 --> 0:17:19.120 to come back up. I throw my hand in front 0:17:19.160 --> 0:17:21.760 of my mouth and stop it just before it comes 0:17:21.800 --> 0:17:24.960 back up, wipe my mouth, put the shot glass down, 0:17:25.200 --> 0:17:27.240 look the guy in the eye and say thanks for 0:17:27.359 --> 0:17:29.359 the shot, and turn around and walk away. Because he 0:17:29.440 --> 0:17:31.600 was trying to get me the puke, right, I showed him. 0:17:32.359 --> 0:17:34.520 That's what happened in my head. You wanna hear what 0:17:34.560 --> 0:17:37.399 happened in reality. The guy buys me the shot, I 0:17:37.560 --> 0:17:40.119 take it, throw my hand up to my hand, to 0:17:40.280 --> 0:17:44.240 my mouth, puke everywhere, including the bar, on the guy, 0:17:44.560 --> 0:17:47.600 on myself, put the shot glass down, look him in 0:17:47.640 --> 0:17:49.720 the eye and say thanks for the shot, and turned 0:17:49.720 --> 0:17:53.000 around and walked away. You're kidding, and you were disqualified. 0:17:53.240 --> 0:17:55.480 I was disqualified because it would have gotten on some 0:17:55.600 --> 0:17:58.480 food or something. Yeah, Tony first birthday. You know I 0:17:58.560 --> 0:18:00.199 had friends at work there at the time. I bet 0:18:00.240 --> 0:18:02.080 they remember that night. I'm gonna ask them. You should 0:18:02.240 --> 0:18:04.360 ask my buddy Clay. Have them send in some listener mail. 0:18:04.400 --> 0:18:07.080 We'll read it. Alright, So Chuck, let's talk about I 0:18:07.160 --> 0:18:10.560 think we're going to talk about how people do this, right. Yeah, 0:18:10.600 --> 0:18:13.280 I think that the water we're on the water thing 0:18:13.320 --> 0:18:16.440 and we get really sidetracked by vomit. Kobayashi has a 0:18:16.480 --> 0:18:20.520 little technique called Japanese ng or solemnon ng. Yeah, breaking 0:18:20.880 --> 0:18:23.200 the wiener in half, separating the weener from the bun, 0:18:23.840 --> 0:18:26.520 breaking the weener in half, stuffing the winer in his 0:18:26.600 --> 0:18:29.200 mouth with both hands at the same time, at the 0:18:29.240 --> 0:18:31.840 same time to to get yeah, to get the hold 0:18:31.880 --> 0:18:34.320 and then dunking the bun very quickly in the water. 0:18:34.480 --> 0:18:36.080 And it's at that point in the bun is just 0:18:36.160 --> 0:18:39.119 like a you know, stoppy mess. It goes down pretty easy, imagine, right. 0:18:39.160 --> 0:18:41.359 I was doing a little research, dude, and I gotta 0:18:41.400 --> 0:18:45.760 tell you, Crystals is mixing it up. If they're they're 0:18:45.920 --> 0:18:50.320 hamburger eating contest into September coming up. Uh, they have 0:18:50.440 --> 0:18:54.320 a no dunking rule really, and they're introducing their big burgers. 0:18:55.160 --> 0:18:57.560 Oh wow, So it's gonna it's gonna be all crazy, 0:18:57.680 --> 0:18:59.880 gonna get messy. Yeah, but yeah, they won't be allowed 0:18:59.880 --> 0:19:03.520 to which is actually a radical departure from standard rules. Yeah. 0:19:03.600 --> 0:19:06.280 I'd prefer to see a straight up contest. Yeah, I 0:19:06.320 --> 0:19:08.760 mean if it's not sixty eight dogs, who cares, what 0:19:08.840 --> 0:19:12.320 if it's like forty, but it's genuine hot dog eating, 0:19:12.520 --> 0:19:16.040 no dunking, no water, lots of vomiting. Yeah, that's what 0:19:16.119 --> 0:19:18.040 we all want, Chuck, we should probably put like a 0:19:19.080 --> 0:19:22.440 needle coming off of a record at this point. Thank you. 0:19:22.840 --> 0:19:27.119 We've um gotten kind of all delta force on this, 0:19:27.520 --> 0:19:29.920 you know, competitive eating, even though I think it's disgusting. 0:19:30.200 --> 0:19:35.119 Not everybody thinks it's a it's good or great or whatever. 0:19:35.320 --> 0:19:39.160 A lot of people, including the fine, fine actor star 0:19:39.320 --> 0:19:43.359 of Van Wilder, Ryan Reynolds, thinks that basically it's a um, 0:19:43.840 --> 0:19:48.200 it's a real symbol of America's obese wastefulness. And you 0:19:48.280 --> 0:19:51.600 know what, that's not an argument that's easily defended. No, 0:19:51.720 --> 0:19:54.200 it really isn't, because you know, you think, well, this 0:19:54.320 --> 0:19:58.520 guy just eight, um, how many sixty eight hot dogs 0:19:58.560 --> 0:20:02.600 in eight minutes? How many uh, how many kids died 0:20:02.680 --> 0:20:06.639 in the eight minutes from starvation? And some of these competitors. 0:20:06.680 --> 0:20:10.440 You're allowed to make yourself throw the food up afterward, right, Yeah, 0:20:10.520 --> 0:20:13.040 whatever you do after you after it's done, however you 0:20:13.119 --> 0:20:15.040 get rid of it, is okay. So that's straight up 0:20:16.119 --> 0:20:19.240 it is, and that's no one is encouraging that by 0:20:19.320 --> 0:20:21.439 any means. And it's dangerous. Some of these people too, 0:20:21.440 --> 0:20:24.440 when they train, they they'll drink like a gallon of 0:20:24.520 --> 0:20:26.320 water in a minute, and they try and do these 0:20:26.359 --> 0:20:29.320 things to expand your stomach. That's dangerous too. It is 0:20:29.359 --> 0:20:33.320 there's actually water intoxication, which can be fatal because it 0:20:33.520 --> 0:20:37.440 screws with the the dilution of electrolytes in your body, 0:20:38.040 --> 0:20:40.399 which is bad. That's bad news, dude. Right, and a 0:20:40.480 --> 0:20:44.200 woman died of fears back from water intoxication from a contest. 0:20:44.240 --> 0:20:46.399 I had heard that. Well, not only that, Um, you 0:20:46.480 --> 0:20:51.399 can actually get gastro pariasis, which is a stomach paralysis. Right, 0:20:52.040 --> 0:20:56.840 And basically, after your stomach is stretched out enough enough times, 0:20:57.480 --> 0:21:02.159 it will stop contracting and you won't evacuate your stomach 0:21:02.240 --> 0:21:05.200 to your small intestine any longer. Yeah, which is not 0:21:05.320 --> 0:21:07.840 good when that happens. Actually, yeah, so I don't know 0:21:07.880 --> 0:21:09.760 if you knew that. It's it's not good. The dark 0:21:09.840 --> 0:21:13.160 side of competitive eating. Uh, you know the people who 0:21:13.280 --> 0:21:16.000 endorse this or I'm gonna say that, they just have 0:21:16.040 --> 0:21:17.440 a lot of fun with it. And then it's a 0:21:17.520 --> 0:21:19.800 tradition and it's kind of a big joke. I know 0:21:19.880 --> 0:21:21.880 when you see it on TV, they look like they're 0:21:21.880 --> 0:21:24.520 taking it really seriously. Apparently that's all kind of part 0:21:24.560 --> 0:21:26.960 of the act and they all think it's kind of funny. 0:21:27.400 --> 0:21:30.440 But dude, twenty grand on the line. Yeah, there's some 0:21:30.560 --> 0:21:33.800 serious prose money for for Nathan's hot dogs. It's twenty 0:21:34.200 --> 0:21:37.920 dollar prize and the mustard Belt. So, um, that's a 0:21:38.040 --> 0:21:41.919 nice little chunk of change for stuff and down hot dogs. Plus. Also, um, 0:21:42.680 --> 0:21:46.480 I think the i fo c E does not endorse 0:21:46.680 --> 0:21:50.200 or support anybody practicing or training for it. But the 0:21:50.840 --> 0:21:56.520